Once again the Earth has cycled back to where its northern half (which happens to include us) is tilted towards...
Read moreThe entries have been copied from the July issues of the New Paltz Independent.
Read moreI thought I knew all I needed to know about the hardships my Irish ancestors endured during the infamous potato famine...
Read moreMars is performing a wonderful, colorful conjunction, and it’s easy to spot. At 9:30 or 9:45, tonight or the next...
Read moreYesterday, I spent an hour with Dawn Borrello, the new owner of The Bakery who intends to elongate the life...
Read moreMany assume the universe’s underlying nature can be revealed by astronomy or its cousin cosmology. That’s a big change from...
Read moreOn Tuesday, May 9 the City of Kingston police arrested two juveniles responsible for the 18-second, brutal, life-altering attack on another child....
Read moreJune 1 is considered the start of meteorological summer.
Read moreAll this year Earth's sister planet has heated up the evening sky like a UFO. You've surely seen that dazzling...
Read moreLast week’s news was exciting: A meteor plunged through the roof of a New Jersey home, was scientifically identified by...
Read moreWhen Pastor Chris Williams survived a severe car accident at age 18, in which he and his father were miraculously...
Read moreThe truth is that spring in the northeast is a time of great (albeit painstakingly slow) transition and impatient humans...
Read moreHarold Evans was an English journalist, writer and editor who loved America before he had ever seen it. He eventually...
Read moreWhen this long cloudy period finally ends, let’s point our eyes toward arguably the most amazing thing in the universe....
Read moreThe ‘‘Our towns’’ column is compiled each month by Carol Johnson of the Haviland-Heidgerd Historical Collection. The entries have been...
Read moreEither nature is perfect, or else dark, snakelike patterns slither menacingly through the universe’s appointment calendar, its pages redolent with...
Read moreThe days are noticeably longer, more and more migrating birds have returned; moths have hatched and are mobbing street-lights; the...
Read moreIn one of the most egregious science news goof-ups of the past half century, many mainstream media sources urged people...
Read moreVenus is the brightest “star” in the cosmos. No wonder civilizations through the ages worshiped it.
Read moreThe wild concept of a crushed sun started in 1783 with the British natural philosopher John Mitchell. He proposed the...
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